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Workers at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) at Swansea contact centre have announced plans to strike on the August bank holiday weekend.

A general election has been called in Turkey for 1 November. This follows close on an earlier poll in June. 

Protests broke out in St Louis, in the US state of Missouri, after police shot dead black teenager Mansur Ball-Bey on Wednesday of last week.

The panic that spread through financial markets at the start of this week exposed the volatility of the system (see page 3).  For all the talk of “recovery” capitalism is fragile.

The attempted murder case against South African trade unionist Makhanya Siphamandla was thrown out on the first day of his trial on Wednesday of last week.

It  was wonderful to see thousands of migrants burst through the outer defences of Fortress Europe last Saturday.  

 

Campaigners were set to take part in a national day of action against further education cuts on Wednesday of this week.

Union rep Max Watson will appeal against his compulsory redundancy on Thursday of this week. 

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Some 200 anti-fascists saw off around 40 Nazis from the National Front, North West Infidels and Combat 18 in Manchester last Saturday.

An explosion and fire at a chemical warehouse in Shandong province in eastern China last Saturday killed one person and injured nine.